“This approach has several purposes: building greater knowledge, confidence and use of evaluation systems by management, governing bodies and others; providing a suitable way of ‘evaluating the evaluators’; sharing good practice, experience and mutual learning.”

This is a report of an independent evaluation of the Austrian Country Programme Serbia 2006-2008. The evaluation was commissioned by ADA with the purpose of drawing conclusions and recommendations for the programming of the future Austrian Cooperation with Serbia.

This report sets out the findings of an independent Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration in Uganda, which are expected to feed into the on-going evaluation of Uganda’s national Poverty Eradication Action Plan.

Purpose and Objective of Evaluation
Within the International Cooperation, activities and projects are increasingly subsumed into programmes which are strategically oriented and focus more on structural impact contributing to transformation and development processes. A central concern of the international community is how to increase the efficiency of International Cooperation and how to align donor policies with the national